"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Bow Wow Wow – in session for John Peel – October 20, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Bow Wow Wow tonight, in a session recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on October 20, 1980. Despite being the brain child of Sex Pistols svengali Malcolm McLaren, Bow Wow...
H.W. van Loon Commentary – Reigns Of Terror – March 18, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Reigns of Terror. In March of 1938 it was the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany – it led us to the brink of war, but was avoided by allowing Hitler the...
January 26, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1979 – The big news of the day came towards the end of the day. Bulletins hit the airwaves that former four-time New York Governor and vice-President Nelson Rockefeller had died suddenly of a massive...
Pauline Murray – in session for John Peel – March 19, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Former lead singer for the Punk band Penetration, Pauline Murray launched a solo career when Penetration called it quits in 1979. This session, her first and only one for John Peel, comes around...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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